U5L8 Flooding Impacts

Question 1

What impacts do nearly all major foods have?

Answer 1

socioeconomic

Question 2

What is the definition of socioeconomic?

Answer 2

Relating to a combination of social and economic factors

Question 3

Even if homes or places of business were spared from the flood, how are they still impacted?

Answer 3

Flooding often causes damage to infrastructure such as roads, bridges, airports, communication systems, power plants, and schools. The flow of goods and services into and out of the community may be disrupted for a long period of time. With limited access to important products, loss of customers, or loss of a home, many people find it necessary to relocate or rebuild.

Question 4

What can you loss in flooding in farmland?

Answer 4

loss of crops, livestock, equipment, and structures

Question 5

Why are wet fields impractical?

Answer 5

Wet fields may make it difficult to harvest a crop or allow cattle to graze.

Question 6

Why is the price of crops increased after a flood?

Answer 6

Transportation of supplies to a farm or products from a farm may prove impossible. If agricultural production is severely impacted across a large area, food shortages might result, driving up the prices of particular products.

Question 7

How can floods bring improvements to a community?

Answer 7

Tourism dollars that were lost immediately after a flood might someday be regained by building recreational areas in newly created floodplains. Buildings that are rebuilt or replaced can include improvements that are attractive to homeowners or business owners.

Question 8

Socioeconomic impacts of flooding might include:

Answer 8

• damage to structures and infrastructure
• damage to land, products, and possessions
• food shortages and increased food prices
• loss of livelihood
• relocation
• disruption of routines and access to goods and services

Question 9

What is a positive impact to the environment during and after a flood?

Answer 9

Flood water also contains sediment, organic material, and nutrients the nourish the soil, improving plant growth and improving the health of an ecosystem.

Question 10

What is a negative impact to the environment during and after a flood?

Answer 10

Flood water can contain debris that obstructs shorelines or pollutants that damage fields

Question 11

What worry can flood water arise?

Answer 11

The flooding will degrade water quality and contaminate the drinking supply that a community depends on.

Question 12

How do large floods have an impact of wildlife and biodiversity?

Answer 12

Habitats might be altered or washed away. Food supplies might be diminished. Microbial communities and earthworms in the soil might not survive. A disruption at the bottom of a food chain can have impacts all the way up to the top of the food chain.

Question 13

What is the definition of water table?

Answer 13

The boundary between unsaturated ground and saturated ground.

Question 14

What is the definition of aquifer?

Answer 14

An area of rock the absorbs and holds water that exists below the water table

Question 15

Environmental impacts of flooding might include:

Answer 15

• nourishment of the soil
• improved plant growth in the future
• the spread of pollutants
• degradation of water quality
• contamination of drinking water
• disruption of food chain
• groundwater recharging

Question 16

What is groundwater recharge?

Answer 16

the process of water moving down into the soil from surface water to groundwater

Question 17

What are ways groundwater recharge can happen?

Answer 17

It happens when rainwater seeps directly into the soil. It also happens when runoff from a freshwater source seeps into the ground.

Question 18

Groundwater recharge is the primary way water enters an ______ underground.

Answer 18

aquifer

Question 19

How is the water table lowered?

Answer 19

As water is removed from aquifers for human consumption and irrigation, the water table beneath the surface is lowered.

Question 20

What does groundwater help with?

Answer 20

to restore the water supply and raise the water table

Question 21

How do floods benefit aquifers?

Answer 21

they provide the water to help replenish aquifers

Question 22

How does flooding and mold affect public and private properties?

Answer 22

Flooding can cause molding, and mold can develop within 24–48 hours. If not addressed, mold can cause serious health problems.

Question 23

How does flooding affect transportation and communication?

Answer 23

They can damage roads, rail networks, shipping ports, bridges, airports, electrical grids, and telecommunications, repairs must be done immediately

Question 24

How are the repairs for communions and transportation different from repairs for communities?

Answer 24

It can take months and even years for policymakers, engineers, planners, developers, and the public to work together and draft a plan for repairs.

Question 25

If the soil is too damp, what happens to the oxygen and nitrogen levels?

Answer 25

They are depleted

Question 26

List the good and bad impacts side of environmental of flooding.

Answer 26

Floods can recharge groundwater resources, renew wetlands, distribute sediments and nutrients around the land, and increase fish production. However, floods can also disrupt sewage systems, damage habitats, cause severe soil erosion, contaminate water supplies, and disrupt the natural balance of ecosystems.